Please join the Farmington Land Trust as we host a panel discussion on the effects of light pollution on our environment and human health. FLT Board Member, Jessica Harrison will moderate an expert panel of speakers from Lights out Connecticut and The Farmington Town Council. We will explore the impact of light pollution on  birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, plants, and humans. Together, we can find solutions!

Panelists:

Meredith Barges is a bird-friendly building policy advocate, educator, Co-Chair of Lights Out Connecticut, and a former Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative policy researcher. Through her work, she helps people understand and appreciate birds' complex lives, how birds interact with the built environment, and how our decisions about buildings, lighting, and landscaping affect bird populations, with existential stakes. She co-authored “Building Safer Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way on Bird-Friendly Building Policy” (American Bird Conservancy & Yale Law School, 2023). In 2021,…